Monthly Archives: March 2018

Lake Buel District Minutes

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Date:  January 3, 2018

Place:  Peter Hagen’s home at 62 Lakeside Road New Marlborough, MA

Meeting call to order 7:10 P.M.  by Peter Hagen

In Attendance:  Pete Hagen, Mark Amstead, Kyle Pierce, Wayne Dolby; Absent: Chris Hassett

Minutes from September 18, 2017 were approved and will be sent to Ginny Hyde for posting to the Lake Buel Website.

Outlet Maintenance:  Mark Amstead reported that due to the beaver issues not being resolved until late in the fall, the drawdown was not completed until December 15th.  Brian Fenner and Eric Ives have been working with Mark and Peter to keep the beaver population down. Eric seems to be available to take on the project with the beavers.

5 Year Plan:  Pete Hagen outlined the goals to achieve for the 5 Year Plan

1. Repairing the dam

2.  Repairing the levy on both sides of the dam

3.  Dealing with the lake filling in with silt and weeds beyond what the harvesting    accomplishes

Mark Amstead will speak with Chris Tryon about ways that these issues could be approached.

Fiscal Year 2019 Budget:  Pat Mielke presented the Prudential Committee with a budget update.  The FY19 budget will be level funded except for the following items: The Board approved a $500 salary increase or 6% for Pat Mielke.  In addition, Weed Harvesting Contracted will be increased by $800 and Water Outlet Maintenance will be increased by $1000 in order to reflect the projected expenses.  Also, the Equipment Repair and Equipment Replacement Accounts will be deleted from the operating budget line items and added to the  Warrant Articles to transfer funds to the Stabilization account.  The net operating budget will increase by $500 with these  changes.

Other Business:  Mark Amstead will put the Title to the new truck in the District storage unit.

Mark and Chris Hassett will get any records that are stored at Dave Logan’s house.

Committee will be looking to put the harvesting equipment in the lake during the week after Memorial Day.

Everyone was reminded that the mailing address for Lake Buel District for all correspondence has been changed to: P.O. Box 236, Mill River, MA 01244.

Next meeting is set for Wednesday May 9, 2018 at the home of Kyle Pierce at 287 Arts Rd.

Monterey, MA.

Motion to adjourn 7:57 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

Pat Mielke, Clerk

Notify NM select board via USPS

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Hello friends of Lake Buel. Thank you all for your support in our efforts to fight the proposed cannibas industrial complex in Hartsville. There has been quite a surge of support with our efforts to stop the New Marlborough select board from granting a special permit to Campus Oasis the proposed Industrial Complex. However we remain very concerned that our elected officials are in favor of this proposal. It has come to our attention that “any email letters sent to the select board voicing an opposition to this special permit are not considered valid & may not even be read”.
Despite the concern & opposition from those who have attended the select board & planning board meetings on this subject, we have concerns that the select board may rule in favor of the permit. That decision will probably be made at March 12th open meeting. I strongly urge you to send a letter via USPS to the select board opposing the special permit submitted by Campus Oasis, ASAP! Only letters addressed to the board & mailed by the US postal service can be considered.